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Drama

Theatre

Performance

Film Studies

Art

Cinema

Skills and Training

Production

Programa académico

Course overview

This degree gives you the opportunity to develop your creative talents in and drama and film. It benefits from outstanding facilities for performance, as well as from our industry-standard resources for digital video and 16mm film production, alongside professional tuition in screenwriting and filmjournalism.

Course content in both subjects provides an excellent balance between theory and practice, allowing you to engage with essential critical and aesthetic approaches to film and drama, and, to apply those creatively to a range of practical projects in both areas. This is a challenging and stimulating course of study that will take you from the close study of texts and films, to the analysis and practice of performance and film production.

The course provides opportunities to screen or perform your work on and off-campus, to undertake commissioned work, and to engage with the film and theatre industries through self-generated work placements, encouraging the development of critical knowledge alongside transferable and vocational skills.

You will take half of your degree from drama and half from film studies.

Module guide

Year one core modules

Approaches to Contemporary Theatre

Introduction to Film and Cinema

Year two core modules

Making Performance

Live Art and Performance

Theorising the Specular and Classical Hollywood Cinema

Year three core modules

Major Project in Drama or Film Studies

Year one optional modules

Introduction to Performance (Recommended)

Performance Analysis (Recommended)

Visualisation, Research and Storyboarding (Recommended)

Film and Genre

Introduction to Video

History of Cinema

Anglia Language Programme

Year two optional modules

Writing Drama

TV Drama Production

Directors and Directing

Film, Identity and Globalisation

Documentary Film Theory

16mm Film-making

Introduction to European Cinema

Independent Cinema: US and Beyond

Video Documentary

Animation

European Cinema and Identity

Anglia Language Programme

Year three optional modules

Devising Performance

Enterprise in the Creative Arts

Contemporary Drama

Art, Music and Performance

Special Subject (Theatre)

Reviewing New Drama

Arts Administration

Principles of Dramatherapy

Film Art

Film, Modernity and Postmodernity

Creative Practice in Film & Video

Working in Film

Avant-garde Film and Experimental Video

Multiplexed: Contemporary Popular Cinema

Anglia Language Programme

Assessment

Assessment is carried out via a very broad mix of methods including critical essays, reports, oral presentations, studio and public performance, an individual major project plus a range of practice-based research techniques.

As part of your learning you will be encouraged to seek work placements and to generate commissioned work in a range of modules. These form part of the assessment where undertaken. You will also be required to give critical evaluations of creative work undertaken and in 'crits' where you will present and defend your own work. Each year you will undertake Personal Development Planning (PDP) which encourages reflection on progress to date and the achievement of transferable skills and knowledge.

Información adicional

Comments: Work placements:
Building relationships with film-related organisations through work placements and commissions is encouraged. Students have recently undertaken work experience with: Cambridge Arts Picturehouse; Cambridge Film Festival; Red TV; ITN; London Weekend Television; BBC; CBBC; MTV; Zenith Productions; London Studios; and the New York Film Academy.Career opportunities: Past graduates now enjoy successful careers in film, theatre and video production, film criticism, festival and events administration and management, film and theatre education and teaching, broadcasting, journalism and publishing, advertising and public relations.
To date, students have undertaken work placements and commissions with regional and local television, radio and newspapers, MTV and the Cambridge Film Festival, and this has often been part of their assessed work.
There are opportunities to progress on to the department's MAs in Film Studies or in Contemporary Theatre.